VEYMERiA. ARROTHIA. 



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hair; frons witli Mhito spots at sides and orange spot below frontal 

 prominence; lliorax orange, with black lateral sjwts on tegulao; 

 pectus and legs black ; throat orange ; the coxae and spots on tibiae 

 and tarsi \\ hite ; abdomen orange, with dorsal series of black spots, 

 the last two segments and ventral surface banded black and white. 

 Fore wing orange, tinged with red on basal inner area ; the costal 



Fig. 250. — Veymeria athene, 5. 



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and terminal areas black, the inner edge of latter running obliquely 

 from below middle of costa to submedian fold near termen, then 

 erect ; a large somewhat quadrate pale orange postmcdial spot 

 below costa, an oval spot between veins 3 and 5, and small s})ots 

 on veins 2 and 1 ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing orange, tinged 

 with red towards base ; a broad terminal black l^and Avith sinuous 

 inner edge, small subterminal pale orange spots on veins (5, 4, 2, 1 ; 

 cilia white at apex and towards tornus. 



llah. Germ. E. Aerica, Tanganyika, in Coll. Iiothschild. Exp. 

 62 millim. 



Genus ARROTHIA.. 



Type. 



Arrothia, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 4o (1896) hicolor. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ii(l joint [ringed with sjiarse 

 long liair in IVont, the oi'd long, naked, and soniewliat porvect; frons with long 

 corneous spine truncate at extremity ; antenna^ ol' female nearly simple, dis- 

 tinctly dilated towards extremity ; tibia; fringed with rough hair above. Fore 

 wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form theaerole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 

 2 froiri towards -ingle of cell ; '6, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; (i, 7 from ui)per angle. 



*10G. Arrothia hicolor. 



Arruthia birolur, Eotiis. Nov. Zool. iii. p. IG, pi. 14. f. I'D (l.S'.H)). 



2 . Head black; thorax orange fulvous ; abdimien orange ; pectus, 

 legs, last two segments of abdomen and ventral snrfaco ])lack. Fore 

 wing with the basal half orange, the basal area being black overlaid 



